World War II, We Were There

About the Book

The life of everyone who lived through World War II was changed by this worldwide upheaval. In some of the stories told here:
a P-38 pilot looks down at one of his buddies frozen in the Alaskan ice,
a German prisoner of war ends up in a Russian labor camp,
an Army wife flirts with a judge to get a permit to buy a rationed tire,
a USO dancer helps wounded soldiers forget their pain for a few moments,
a thirteen-year-old boy, traveling alone from Czechoslovakia to California to join his father is stranded in Curacao.
Here are forty-three accounts of the terror, pain, exuberance, boredom, kindness of that extraordinary time.

About the Author

Editor Beverly Levine leads a writers' group for Lifelong Learners, an organization connected with the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of two non-fiction regional books on California and articles on subjects from the dairy industry to travel in Russia.